Meditation boreale by David Hertzberg

November 2, 2016
YIVO Institute for Jewish Research

A concert featuring new classical works by young and emerging Jewish American composers

“Although my Méditation boréale was conceived as an abstract piece of music, throughout the course of its composition certain images and ideas suggested themselves to me. The following lines are an ekphrastic response to my own work, written upon completing the piece:

aurora

outside of time,
the pregnant wasteland,
stoic, unmoved
by wind or tide,
unseen, unknown, and so,
unreal,
invents

she is without waiting
she cannot but squander
infinitely in her silent shiftings

listen! underneath
there is a din
that, deaf to wishing,
swells, until
the tracks of some
lone thing
are etched upon
the ice
and she
demurs.”
—David Hertzberg

Performers:
Maya Bennardo, Violin
Brigid Coleridge, Violin
Hannah Levinson, Viola
Meaghan Burke, Cello


A part of the Sidney Krum Concert Series:
https://www.yivo.org/young-jewish-ame...